Robert Geddes

TAMPA OR BUST: Owners of Pacific's cross-county rival, Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre, are looking to expand their empire to Florida. . . . Robert Geddes and Irving Azoff have proposed a $25-million amphitheater, the MusicDome, for the Tampa waterfront. Azoff, a high-profile music industry heavyweight, and Geddes, a concert entrepreneur, bought into Irvine Meadows last year after a proposed merger with the Pacific was blocked.

Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre, the popular outdoor concert site threatened with destruction in a recent dispute, is being sold to a financier who helped propel the Hard Rock Cafe chain to international fame. In an agreement disclosed Friday, Thomas "Jock" Weaver III's Nashville Country Club Inc. will buy 51% of the theater from a group headed by Robert E. Geddes, the theater's managing partner. Weaver also is buying control of Geddes' Avalon West Coast, a leading concert producer and promoter.

The Pacific Amphitheatre's operators have been beaten on two fronts in their efforts to stave off noise restrictions and to eliminate profit-sapping competition with rival Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre. An Orange County Superior Court judge imposed new noise limitations on the 18,765-capacity rock and pop concert facility on Tuesday, the same day that Pacific officials learned that they had lost their bid to acquire a controlling interest in their longtime competitor. In the wake of a U.S.

R.D. Hubbard, Hollywood Park's chairman, unveiled plans Friday for a $100-million expansion of the park. The project, including a 16,000-seat concert hall, a Hollywood Park Golf Academy recreation area and a card-club casino at trackside, will generate 3,000 permanent jobs inside Hollywood Park and as many as 4,000 jobs for vendors and other businesses that will serve the facility, Hubbard said.

The Pacific Amphitheatre's operators were beaten on two key fronts Tuesday in their efforts to stave off noise restrictions and to eliminate profit-sapping competition with the rival Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre. An Orange County Superior Court judge imposed new noise limitations on the 18,765-capacity rock and pop concert facility on the same day that Pacific officials learned that they had lost their bid to acquire a controlling interest in their longtime competitor. In the wake of a U.S.

R.D. Hubbard, Hollywood Park's chairman, unveiled plans Friday for a $100-million expansion of the park. The project, including a 16,000-seat concert hall, a Hollywood Park Golf Academy recreation area and a card-club casino at trackside, will generate 3,000 permanent jobs inside Hollywood Park and as many as 4,000 jobs for vendors and other businesses that will serve the facility, Hubbard said.

Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre, the popular outdoor concert site threatened with destruction in a recent dispute, is being sold to a financier who helped propel the Hard Rock Cafe chain to international fame. In an agreement disclosed Friday, Thomas "Jock" Weaver III's Nashville Country Club Inc. will buy 51% of the theater from a group headed by Robert E. Geddes, the theater's managing partner. Weaver also is buying control of Geddes' Avalon West Coast, a leading concert producer and promoter.

The managing partner of Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre said Monday that he has formed an alliance with music industry heavyweight Irving Azoff to prevent Irvine Meadows from being taken over by the Nederlander Organization, which runs the rival Pacific Amphitheatre in Costa Mesa. Robert Geddes described his partnership with Azoff, former chairman of MCA Inc.'

April 11, 1990 | GREG BRAXTON, Arts and entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news services and the nation's press

Irving Azoff Joins Irvine Meadows Fight: The managing partner of Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre has formed an alliance with music industry heavyweight Irving Azoff to prevent Irvine Meadows from being taken over by the Nederlander Organization, which runs the rival Pacific Amphitheatre in Costa Mesa. Robert Geddes described his partnership with Azoff, former chairman of MCA Inc.'

TBA Global Events, a Los Angeles company specializing in organizing major corporate events, announced that it was buying rival Production Group International of Washington. TBA's partners are veteran music industry figures Irving Azoff and Robert Geddes, who serves as chief executive, along with financial backers JHW Greentree Capital and an affiliate of Whitney & Co. Terms weren't disclosed, although TBA said that the combined revenue of the two companies would be about $175 million.

TAMPA OR BUST: Owners of Pacific's cross-county rival, Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre, are looking to expand their empire to Florida. . . . Robert Geddes and Irving Azoff have proposed a $25-million amphitheater, the MusicDome, for the Tampa waterfront. Azoff, a high-profile music industry heavyweight, and Geddes, a concert entrepreneur, bought into Irvine Meadows last year after a proposed merger with the Pacific was blocked.

The Pacific Amphitheatre's operators have been beaten on two fronts in their efforts to stave off noise restrictions and to eliminate profit-sapping competition with rival Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre. An Orange County Superior Court judge imposed new noise limitations on the 18,765-capacity rock and pop concert facility on Tuesday, the same day that Pacific officials learned that they had lost their bid to acquire a controlling interest in their longtime competitor. In the wake of a U.S.

The Pacific Amphitheatre's operators were beaten on two key fronts Tuesday in their efforts to stave off noise restrictions and to eliminate profit-sapping competition with the rival Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre. An Orange County Superior Court judge imposed new noise limitations on the 18,765-capacity rock and pop concert facility on the same day that Pacific officials learned that they had lost their bid to acquire a controlling interest in their longtime competitor. In the wake of a U.S.

The managing partner of Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre said Monday that he has formed an alliance with music industry heavyweight Irving Azoff to prevent Irvine Meadows from being taken over by the Nederlander Organization, which runs the rival Pacific Amphitheatre in Costa Mesa. Robert Geddes described his partnership with Azoff, former chairman of MCA Inc.'

Re "Welcome to the Sheraton; Ignore the Red Stickers," March 1 So the Treasury Department orders a Sheraton hotel in Mexico City to evict Cubans because taking their money is a violation of the U.S. embargo against Cuba. Then we're told the Cubans were at the hotel meeting with U.S. oil executives discussing future investments. What's the real story here? JAN HANSEN Los Angeles As a Canadian who has traveled in the U.S., visited Cuba, lived in Mexico and watched the ebb and flow in Cuban-American relations for more than 40 years, I wonder if the more important questions arising from the incident that sparked this situation might be who were the American energy executives meeting with the Cuban delegation, what action has the U.S. government taken against those executives for obviously being in violation of American law, and do any of those executives have a special relationship with anybody working in the White House?

* Olympics: Having lost in the race for the huge ticketing contract for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Ticketmaster will not go home empty-handed: The Los Angeles-based ticketing industry giant has hooked up with an Encino-based concert promoter to produce and sell exclusive Olympic merchandise. Ticketmaster has agreed to provide financing to Eric/Chandler Ltd.